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Few colleges and universities have suspended students participating in campus protests. SU placed about 30 #NotAgainSU members under interim suspension. Page 3

Award-winning screenwriter, producer and playwright Marc Lapadula spoke to a group of students and members of the public at Syracuse Studios. Page 9

The Daily Orange Editorial Board argues that after two weeks of #NotAgainSU’s occupation of Crouse-Hinds Hall, both sides must find compromise. Page 5

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A D.O. data analysis shows a pervasive coaching double standard that plagues collegiate ice hockey and holds the women’s side of the sport behind. Page 12

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Syverud to participate in #NotAgainSU negotiations via phone Organizers presented Syverud with a list of 19 demands in November. Syverud signed 16 as written and revised the remaining three. The movement has added 16 demands since it began its occupation last week. The movement will begin negotiating with university officials on its additional demands Monday at 4 p.m., continuing until its demands are met. Organizers and SU administrators met Thursday to discuss the logistics of the negotiations. Several university officials will be

By Maggie Hicks asst. news editor

Chancellor Kent Syverud will not be physically present at this weeks’ negotiation meetings with #NotAgainSU. #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students, has been occupying Crouse-Hinds Hall since Feb. 17 in response to a string of hate incidents that have occurred on or near Syracuse University’s campus since early November.

present at the negotiations, including Amanda Nicholson, interim deputy senior vice president for the student experience, and Deka Dancil, manager of bias response and education. During the logistics meeting, organizers questioned if Syverud or executive members of the Board of Trustees would be in attendance at the negotiations. Protesters later received an email from SU stating that Syverud and trustees would not be in attendance. The chancellor will be traveling

Monday and Tuesday to manage the university’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and will not be available to meet in person, said Sarah Scalese, senior associate vice president for university communications, in a statement. He will attend the negotiations by phone as much as possible, she said. The university also will continue communicating directly with the Board of Trustees Special Committee on University Climate, Diversity and Inclusion to discuss specific

considerations, Scalese said. Some #NotAgainSU organizers interrupted a lunch with SU donors Saturday to urge Syverud to participate in negotiations. “We’ve been under the impression that he’s too busy to be bothered with us but there he was on campus having lunch trying to collect money,” an organizer said in a statement. Syverud did not address the protesters directly at the lunch, the organizer said. mehicks@syr.edu

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Undervalued

SU lacks permanent women deans

At SU, scientists occupy most of the university’s top research positions. Some professors say that needs to change.

By Sarah Alessandrini

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School/college By Michael Sessa asst. news editor

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English associate professor Coran Klaver has worked at Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences for 21 years. In that time, almost none of the school’s deans have specialized in the humanities. During the University Senate’s annual open forum in February, Klaver expressed concern that scientists occupy many of the

university’s top research and administrative positions. She wanted to address “the elephant in the room,” she said. John Liu, interim vice chancellor and provost, specializes in aquaculture genetics. Ramesh Raina, interim vice president for research, studies biology. The dean of Klaver’s school, Karin Ruhlandt, is a chemist. “All those people are all hard sciences,” Klaver said. “They don’t necessarily have an understanding of the value of the humanities because they haven’t been trained in the humanities.”

SU is not unique in its support of the sciences, but SU could do more to elevate humanities researchers to administrative positions and incorporate humanities perspectives into the university’s decision-making, Klaver said.

Research funding

At February’s senate meeting, Chancellor Kent Syverud said the sources of research funding likely drive the prominence of deans and administrators from STEM backgrounds at major universities. see research page 4

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There were no permanent women deans at Syracuse University when Diane Lyden Murphy earned her undergraduate degree in 1967. Now, she’s one of only three. SU has 13 schools and colleges, including the graduate school. Nine have permanent men deans. Along with the three permanent women deans, professor Amy Falkner serves as interim dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. “The world is changing, but we’re not there yet,” said Murphy, dean of the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. SU’s three women deans said the university needs to prioritize diversity within leadership positions to provide role models to young women. SU not only needs to seek out women representation, but representation across all backgrounds, they said. “We have to be diligent in seeking out diverse candidates for jobs and being intentional about changing what the face of the university looks like,” said Joanna Masingila, dean of SU’s School of Education. Chancellor Kent Syverud said last month that he’s concerned about inequality among SU’s academic deans. The university has lost several permanent women deans in recent years, replacing two of the positions with men. Raj Dewan succeeded Liz Liddy as dean of the School of Information Studies after Liddy retired last year. J. Cole Smith replaced Teresa AbiNader Dahlberg as dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science when Dahlberg took a position at Texas Christian University in 2018. Falkner was chosen to serve as interim dean of Newhouse following the death of former dean Lorraine see deans page 4

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Retailers adjust to NY plastic bag ban By Ashley Clemens contributing writer

Rising voices ELISA DEKANEY, director of the Setnor School of Music’s Brazilian Ensemble and associate dean for research, graduate studies and internationalization, delivered remarks Sunday during Hendricks Chapel’s weekly Music and Message performance. The Hendricks Chapel Choir and organist Anne Laver also performed Brazilian music during the weekend service. anya wijeweera staff photographer

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Few schools suspend student protesters By Sarah Alessandrini asst. copy editor

Few universities and colleges across the country have suspended students participating in campus protests. #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students, has occupied Crouse-Hinds Hall since Feb. 17 to protest hate incidents occurring at or near Syracuse University. SU placed more than 30 organizers under interim suspension Feb. 17 for occupying the building past closing, lifting the sanctions a day later. University officials said that students were not suspended for protesting, but for violating SU’s Code of Student Conduct by remaining in a university building past closing.

While some colleges and universities have been quick to punish student protesters, others have changed campus policies and made deals with organizers. Here’s how other colleges and universities have responded to student protests:

University of Oklahoma

A student protest group, the Black Emergency Response Team, held a three day sit-in and hunger strike last week after two professors used racial slurs in classes. The group began the sit-in outside OU Interim President Joseph Harroz’s office early Wednesday morning. Negotiations between administration and protesters

occurred throughout the sit-in, according to the OU Daily. The protest ended after reaching a compromise on student protesters’ demands Friday afternoon. BERT demanded the resignation of Provost Kyle Harper. While he will remain in his position, OU agreed to conduct an extensive review of Harper’s dealings and add more checks to his power. The university also agreed to consider adopting many of BERT’s demands into the university’s academic strategic plan. #NotAgainSU presented Chancellor Kent Syverud with a list of 19 demands in November to meet in response to the hate incidents. Syverud signed 16 demands as

written, revising the remaining three. The movement has added 16 demands since Feb. 17. The movement plans to occupy Crouse-Hinds until its additional demands are met.

University of Oregon

In 2017, student organizers at the University of Oregon rushed a stage, effectively shutting down President Michael Schill’s state of the university address. The students were protesting neo-Nazi propaganda found on campus and tuition costs. The university later told the student protesters they would not face consequences if they agreed to see protests page 4

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Census organizers work to prevent undercount By Patrick Linehan staff writer

For eight months, Fanny Villarreal has been talking about counting. As the executive director of the YWCA in Syracuse, she’s spent her time fielding questions from community members about participating in the 2020 census. Villarreal receives many of the same questions from immigrants, refugees and other members of the underserved communities she works with. The most common questions concern the confidentiality of census information, particularly with

regard to citizenship, she said. When the census count officially begins March 13, every U.S. household will receive a flyer in the mail explaining how to complete the form online. Villarreal meets with people from across the city to explain that noncitizens count in the census, but their information won’t be shared with any other organizations or law enforcement. “For once, we are teaching everybody of its importance and that we all count,” Villarreal said. Census numbers help determine how much funding Syracuse receives for a number of federal pro-

grams, including Pell grants, Medicare and food assistance programs. The confusion surrounding the census in Syracuse puts the city at a high risk of an undercount, where census counts are lower than the actual population. Several census tracts in Syracuse are at risk of undercount, according to a map from the U.S. Census Bureau. Almost 10% of personal income in New York state comes from federal programs that the census count determines, according to a study from George Washington University. New York state received more than $73 billion in census-

connected funds in 2016. New York is expected this census cycle to lose at least one representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, which allocates seats based on census population, said Tory Russo, the census coordinator for Syracuse. A large undercount in New York could result in another seat loss, diluting New Yorkers’ voting power, she said. The Syracuse Department of Neighborhood and Business Development hired Russo to start promoting census participation last July. She has since worked with at

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New York retailers can no longer distribute plastic bags after a statewide ban went into effect Sunday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the ban of single-use plastic bags last year in an effort to protect wildlife and reduce pollution, Cuomo’s website states. More than 23 billion single-use plastic bags are used annually in New York state, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation. State officials will not start penalizing businesses that use plastic bags until April 1. Come April, businesses that violate the law will be fined $250 after the second offense and then $500 after any further violations. In anticipation of the ban, many local businesses have already moved away from plastic bags and have begun distributing reusable bags or charging customers for paper. “I don’t think we need all the plastic,” said Nicole Martin, a manager for Dazzle Boutique and Gifts, a downtown Syracuse retailer. “The least we can do is carry lots of other sustainable goods.”

I don’t think we need all the plastic...The least we can do is carry lots of other sustainable goods Nicole Martin a manager for dazzle boutique and gifts

Wendy Lee, the owner and manager of Paola Kay Gift Shop in downtown Syracuse, said the ban is an “easy and effective solution.” Some Syracuse retailers view the ban as a financial burden. Kevin Blair, manager of ACE Village Hardware and Gift Shoppe, began buying cloth bags to sell in place of plastic carry-outs. He sells the bags for 99 cents, but each one costs about $1.27, he said. Blair said he doesn’t think the ban will have much of an impact on the environment. “There’s a lot of people that use plastic carryout bags as a trash bag,” Blair said. “And now they’re going to go out and buy plastic bags to put their trash in instead of getting them free when they make a purchase.” After the ban in California, the decrease in plastic carryout bags was offset by a large increase in trash bag purchases, according to a study published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. California is the only other state to have fully banned single-use see ban page 4

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research The National Science Foundation was the primary federal sponsor for research at SU in 2019, issuing $12.4 million in awards, according to data from the Office of Research. Funding from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense ranked second and third. Nationally, federal spending made up about 13% of humanities research funding, but 67% of mathematical, statistical and physical science research funding in 2016. Nonscience, nonhumanities fields received 29% of funding from the federal government, according to Inside Higher Ed.

We’re an institution for higher education. And a lot of people being educated at this school are not being educated in the sciences. Coran Klaver english professor

SU needs to do more to balance research backgrounds among its administrators, Klaver said. Syverud knows his response at the senate meeting wasn’t good enough, she added. “Just because that’s where the funding is coming from, doesn’t mean that’s where you put everybody,” she said. “We’re an institution for higher education. And a lot of people being educated at this school are not being educated in the sciences.” The most money is usually available for academics looking to do research in science, from page 1

deans Branham in April. The school’s search for its permanent dean is ongoing. These circumstances are beyond the university’s control, Masingila said. But administration has a responsibility to recognize inequality among university leadership and bring different perspectives to the table, she said. “We have lived in a society for a long time that has been dominated by white men,” Masingila said. “It’s a barrier. It’s an uphill battle to try to overcome what has been the structure of power that has been put in place.” Murphy said SU needs not only more women faculty members, but also more faculty of color. A university that doesn’t recognize and resolve issues of gender inequality is depriving itself of from page 3

protests meet with administrators to discuss concerns. If the students declined, they could be punished for violating the university’s code of conduct, according to Inside Higher Ed. #NotAgainSU has repeatedly criticized Syverud and SU’s Board of Trustees for not meeting to address the movement’s concerns. Organizers will meet with SU officials Monday to negotiate demands.

Harvard and Yale universities

New Haven police arrested dozens of student organizers who disrupted a HarvardYale football game in November to protest from page 3

census least 50 local organizations to educate community members about the count. YWCA is one of those community organizations. The organization is recruiting ambassadors to knock on doors to spread the word and combat misconceptions about the census. Some of those misconceptions are particularly present this cycle, Villarreal said. The Trump administration in 2017 and 2018 pushed to add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 census. The Supreme Court unanimously shot down the question. The prospect of a citizenship question has increased distrust in the census process

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technology, engineering and math, said J. Cole Smith, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. SU’s department of biology received over $6 million in research funding in 2019. So did the department of physics. Women’s and gender studies, African American studies and SU’s writing program didn’t receive any research money in 2019. SU’s Humanities Center, which offers programming, faculty and graduate student fellowships and visiting professorships, also did not receive research funding. The connections between the humanities and sciences are important, Smith said, and funding agencies are increasingly requiring collaboration between STEM and humanities experts. There are already a number of interdisciplinary studies between STEM and nonSTEM subjects in place at SU, including the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute and the Lava Project, which an assistant professor in art and an earth sciences professor jointly coordinate. There are also multidisciplinary, undergraduate arts and sciences dual programs that allow students to combine STEM majors, such as biology, chemistry and earth sciences, with Whitman majors like entrepreneurship and marketing management. Humanities research deserves to stand alone just like science research does, not just be a component of STEM projects, Klaver said. It can be hard for administrators who have never professionally studied the humanities to understand the importance of humanities research independently, she said. “I think sometimes people tend to see the humanities as providing a service for the university rather than being scholars in our right and having intellectual profiles in our own right because they don’t really understand the kind of knowledge we produce.”

Deans’ influence

the future, and a university without any diversity is irrelevant, Murphy said. As a university leader, Murphy prioritizes increasing faculty diversity, she said. She recently hired four new faculty of color, three of whom are women. “Women are very good administrators,” Murphy said. “They’re just not given the opportunities.” Karin Ruhlandt, dean of SU’s College of Arts and Sciences, said she’s particularly concerned about inequality across disciplines. Many STEM disciplines lack women leaders, faculty and students, Ruhlandt said. As the first woman chair of SU’s chemistry department, Ruhlandt said she had a lot of ideas for improving and diversifying the program’s faculty. “We need to provide role models for our

students, and that’s not just female role models. We need to provide role models for everybody in the student body,” Ruhlandt said. Ruhlandt was the first in her family to attend college. While earning her Ph.D. in Germany, she said she never saw a woman professor, not to mention a woman dean. Attending college was a struggle without having many women role models to look up to, Ruhlandt said. It’s important for SU to encourage and support young women to aspire to leadership positions, she said. “You need to build a pipeline,” she said. “You don’t create a leader out of nothing.” Masingila said diversifying positions of leadership shows people of underrepresented backgrounds that they can achieve the same. It’s important that people see others who look like them in decision-making positions, she said.

When she was in the fourth grade, Masingila said her teacher told her parents she displayed strong leadership skills. It’s important for young women to have mentors, people who encourage them to recognize their abilities and support them in achieving their goals, she said. “If no representation is there, it’s a signal to other faculty members and students,” Masingila said. “If I don’t see anybody who looks like me in that position, could I be in that position?” The next generation of leaders has a responsibility to increase diversity across the board, Murphy said. “Women in power make everything change,” Murphy said. “And they change it for generations.”

climate change. Protesters demanded that both universities withdraw investments in fossil fuel industries and cancel holdings in Puerto Rican debt, according to the New Haven Register. Students from both Harvard and Yale rushed the field, causing officials to stall the game. The organizers were charged with disorderly conduct. A Connecticut judge later ruled the charges would be dropped if the students completed five hours of community service. More than 100 students, faculty and supporters of the #NotAgainSU movement blocked the intersection of South Crouse and Waverly avenues on Wednesday. Syracuse Police Department officers warned protesters they could be arrested for disorderly conduct.

No arrests were made.

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among Syracuse’s immigrant and refugee communities, said Michael Collins, executive director of the Northeast Community Center, in an email. His center has worked to inform people that it’s both safe and important to participate in the census. Language can act as another barrier to census participation, said Stephanie Horton-Centore, a program facilitator at Bob’s School, a Refugee Assistance Program. Adult language students at Bob’s School, located in Syracuse’s Northside, will work with interpreters to fill out the census, Horton-Centore said. The census is available online in 13 languages, including for the first time Arabic, French, Haitian Creole, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese and Tagalog.

The influence deans have over the distribution of research funding can vary between SU’s 13 schools and colleges, Smith said. Klaver said she’d like to see more professors with humanities backgrounds put in key research positions, not just in SU’s dean’s offices. “The people who are in charge of research are not in the humanities, and those are the people who hold the money purse strings,” Klaver said. “They’re the people who are deciding what programs are going to be cut.” Michael Tick, dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, said deans usually have backgrounds that align with their school or college disciplines because they often teach within that school. “When hiring an academic dean, it is important that the candidate’s research background aligns with the school or college’s academic programs and mission,” Tick said in an email. “This is true of Syracuse University’s academic deans.” About half of Tick’s colleagues have STEM research backgrounds, while he and others have backgrounds in the humanities and other fields such as business or advertising, he said. Smith, who previously served as associate provost for academic initiatives at Clemson University, said the discussion shouldn’t just be about the power deans might have to influence hiring or research spending. Administrators should also be aware of the importance of humanities perspectives in their everyday decision-making, he said. Working alongside another associate provost at Clemson whose background was in English proved critical to informed and balanced decision-making, Smith said. “He would always make me slow down and think of another perspective,” he said. “In general, it really does help to have people from different backgrounds in decision-making bodies like that.”

Claremont McKenna College

Claremont McKenna College suspended five students in 2017 for protesting a campus event featuring a conservative author. About 250 protesters blocked access to the auditorium where author Heather Mac Donald was scheduled to speak. Mac Donald is known for defending police against Black Lives Matter activists, according to the Los Angeles Times. After reviewing video evidence, officials identified and charged 10 students with violations of college policy. Five were suspended, three for a year and two for a semester.

“We want our folks to be counted,” Horton-Centore said. “People don’t realize the importance of it, the implications of it.” Russo, a graduate of Syracuse University, said she wants SU students to know that they are also part of the Syracuse census count. Growing up, Russo’s two siblings received reduced-price lunch, a program her family needed in order to eat at school. Her dad relied on unemployment insurance after he was laid off. Both of these programs receive funding from the census, according to census data. “It is so important to how our democracy is supposed to function, that there is fair and equal representations for communities,” Russo said. pjlineha@syr.edu

A path forward

When Syverud arrived at SU in 2014, he made it a priority to address complaints of preferential treatment toward the university’s professional colleges. He listed the College of Arts and Sciences as one of his primary areas for improvement. Syverud has the ambition SU needs to better address disparities in research spending and administrative expertise, but the university’s approaches need to change, Klaver said. “The university is trying to strengthen the College of Arts and Sciences,” Klaver said. “But one of the ways it’s trying to do that is via some pretty traditional metrics about research money and research funds.” For SU to be an innovator in the sciences or the humanities, it has to incorporate a wide variety of perspectives, Smith said. Trusting engineers or computer scientists alone to design user-friendly products wouldn’t work, he said. There needs to be input from people who study the nuances and complexity of the human condition in ways people from the hard sciences often do not, he said. “When you have people with different backgrounds, they tend to innovate better. And some of those innovations are really life-changing,” Smith said. “There’s a need to have that humanities perspective when you’re charting a path forward for the university.” Klaver said she thinks administrators at SU support the humanities, but a lack of understanding about what humanities researchers do can be just as damaging as not supporting the humanities at all. Solving the problem won’t be easy, Klaver said. But SU can start by acknowledging solutions, such as hiring, that are within their reach, she said. “There are scholars here doing brilliant work in the humanities and the social sciences, and their work should be considered just as valuable,” Klaver said. msessa@syr.edu | @MichaelSessa3

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Brandeis University changed its policy regarding student demonstrations last year in response to student protests. Student activists must seek approval from the university before holding protests under the policy. Student protest groups Brandeis Climate Justice and #StillConcernedStudents held protests during the 2018-2019 academic year, according to Brandeis’ student-run newspaper, The Justice. Student activists at Brandeis criticized the new policy for restricting freedom of speech and making peaceful demonstration more difficult. scalessa@syr.edu @sarahalessan

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plastic bags. Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Oregon, Hawaii and Vermont have also all passed legislation involving the reduction of single-use plastics. Laura Markley, a Ph.D. student leading research at SU on microplastics in freshwater systems, doesn’t think plastic can be fully eliminated. “Everyone can do their part,” she said. “But ultimately the big changes have to happen from the big companies that are making all the plastic products, and they need to be held accountable.” aeclemen@syr.edu

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SU, #NotAgainSU must compromise

n the two weeks that #NotAgainSU protesters have occupied Crouse-Hinds Hall, there has been little visible progress toward tangible solutions. Now, as the two sides finally sit at the negotiation table, it is time for compromise. The Daily Orange Editorial Board commends the work of #NotAgainSU protesters in bringing inequality on Syracuse University’s campus to light. The Board supports the protesters’ mission and recognizes the necessity of action. Now, it’s time for serious concessions from both sides in an effort to bring resolution. Until recently, SU officials have shown reluctance to work with protesters. Administrators should have prioritized meeting with students in the lobby of Crouse-Hinds Hall, just like they did six years before during the occupation of Crouse-Hinds by another student-led protest group, THE General Body. Instead of taking time to listen, SU officials handed out suspensions. This was a dangerous first move that cost them protesters’ trust. By suspending students on their first night occupying the building, SU administration strayed away from its previous strategy of interacting with student protesters. Though students

were able to leave Crouse-Hinds at any time, other students, faculty, food and medical supplies were barred from getting to protesters inside. SU now faces a leadership crisis which confuses the entire SU community. Who is in charge? Chancellor Kent Syverud has been sympathetic to protesters in public speeches, reversing suspensions and pleading ignorance to claims of misconduct by Department of Public Safety officers. While Syverud attempted to placate students, other SU administrators claimed that protesters have an “unwillingness to engage” and directed Department of Public Safety officers to blockade Crouse-Hinds. It is crucial now that the SU administration comes to protesters with a unified goal and a clear leader. #NotAgainSU protesters must also strive to negotiate in good faith. On Feb. 24, protesters added 10 demands to their list of 24, and now insist that all 34 demands be accepted by SU. While their cause is valiant, the lack of compromise is concerning. In any negotiation, difficult concessions will need to be made. Just as SU must acknowledge its mistakes and listen to #NotAgainSU protesters now, the protesters must understand the limitations of SU administrators by both the

legal system and the SU Board of Trustees. Across the country, collegiate administrators have learned to sit down with, understand, and negotiate with students instead of working against them. At the University of Oklahoma last week, a similar Black student-led sit-in lasted only three days after administrators quickly entered negotiations with and agreed to terms with protesters. SU administrators must work with protesters to enact demands to the best of their ability. But now they must also work to rebuild the trust in the campus community that the administrations’ poor actions have torn down, and construct a plan to work with future student protests that doesn’t involve suspension and restricting access to buildings.

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inancial literacy is a vital skill, as it teaches people to save and spend money correctly so they can avoid feeling overwhelmed with their personal finances. SyraCHRISTIAN cuse University ANDREOLI is taking approA LOOK priate initiaA ROUN D tives to educate its students on how to manage their finances. According to the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America-College Retirement Equities Fund, or TIAA-CREF, those with lower financial literacy “borrow more, have less wealth and end up paying unnecessary fees for financial products. In addition, other consequences of a lack of financial literacy the TIAA-CREF highlights include poor investing, trouble with handling debt — both personal and student — and a lack of knowledge regarding the of their loans and mortgages. Luckily, Syracuse University has shown a sense of devotion and responsibility to make sure all of its students by the end of their four years have developed strong financial literacy skills. Ranked number two in the nation in the Top 50 College Financial Literacy Programs, the SU Office of Financial Literacy has constantly offered programs to the SU population to expand their arsenal in regards to their financial knowledge and skills. One of the prominent tools offered by the SU Office of Financial Literacy is the Syracuse Smart Money program, which guides students to “minimize expenses, establish savings, show a commitment to paying off debt and plan for their financial future”. In coordination with this tool, the Office of Financial Literacy also offers consultation with a Smart Money Coach which fortifies the importance of budgeting, managing debt, financial planning and saving with the students. “Conversations about money and personal finance are often filled with talk of paying off student loans, debt, and paying bills, and savings is often left out of the initial discussion,” said Melissa Marchetti, a Smart Money coach. “Understanding the value of contributing to your 401(k) or retirement fund early-on, saving for future education, or life’s milestones, is extremely important and will not only help students understand the significance of short term saving, but long term investing in your own well-being.”

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Even if there are some students who do not want to go through the entire Smart Money Program, the Office of Financial Literacy’s webpage also provides students valuable financial basics. Yet, with such an amazing program and department available to SU students, there remains a lack of knowledge regarding basic personal finances. “I don’t even manage my own bank account. Personally, I’ve just always seen personal finances as a topic that I’ll have to be educated on after I graduate from Syracuse and start living on my own,” said Gabi Quintana, a sophomore student at SU. According to a survey produced by LendEdu of college students from across the United States, 43% of students are not currently tracking their spending. In addition, 30% specified that their parents did not teach them basic financial management skills prior to beginning college. “Students are often not taught about finances so knowing (the Smart Money Program) is present at SU helps students excel in all aspects,” said Brittany Tavares, another Smart Money coach. A degree from SU will only bring an individual so far into the real financial world. Without adequate comprehension of financial literacy, one could end up in a state of financial decay where a mismanagement of money has seriously complicated their life. In Northwestern Mutual’s 2018 Planning & Progress Study, 44% of those who responded to the survey found that personal finance is the number one cause of stress among Americans. To alleviate future stress and financial catastrophe, it is the duty of students and their course instructors, regardless of subject, to acknowledge the necessity of financial literacy. Syracuse University is preparing its students to be the world’s next critically acclaimed journalists, engineers, musicians, directors, politicians, sports agents and educators. Yet, all of these scholarly and talented students alike will fail to make their mark and be successful in their endeavors if they are not immersed in the basic understanding of financial literacy.

Christian Andreoli is a freshman history major. His column appears bi-weekly. He can be reached at ctandreo@syr.edu. He can be followed on Twitter at @canderoli12

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Art exhibit promotes wellness, recovery By Mandy Kraynak asst. feature editor

MARC LAPADULA, an award-winning screenwriter, playwright and producer, spoke to a group of students and members of the public during his seminar on Saturday at Syracuse Studios. lucy messineo witt staff photographer

Award-winning screenwriter and producer leads seminar at Syracuse Studios By Kasey O’Rourke contributing writer

ward-winning producer and screenwriter Marc Lapadula trained some of the voices behind movies like “The Hangover,” “(500) Days of Summer” and “Oceans’s 8.” Last Saturday, Lapadula shared his expertise to help train aspiring screenwriters in Syracuse. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Lapadula delivered a lecture at The Academy at Syracuse Studios to provide professional insight into the industry. At the seminar, he

analyzed classic screenplays throughout history and discussed cinematic dialogue, plot construction and conflict, according to an event page. This event is a step in the local production facility’s efforts to offer workshops, seminars and master classes to the public in 2020. The Academy is also offering classes on subjects such as editorial workflow and postproduction, location scouting and a background talent certification program, according to a press release from The Academy at Syracuse Studios. Lapadula, who is also a playwright, has had a career of

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from the kitchen

Chili Bowl Fest raises money for Thornden Park By Amy Nakamura feature editor

The smell of roasted bell peppers and marinated beef wafted through the field house of Thornden Park as community members caught up with neighbors and soaked up some rare winter sunshine. The Thornden Park Association hosted its 24th Annual Chili Bowl Festival on Sunday from 12 to 3 p.m. The money from the festival goes to renovations around the

Really, our goal is to restore every inch of Thornden Park, and it is a historical park. It is one of three in the city. Carol Simson

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park, including maintenance and programming efforts. Kiva VanDerGeest, treasurer of the board of Thornden Park Association, says that about 300 people attended the Chili Bowl Fest. The association also partnered with the Syracuse frisbee golf group tournament for a higher turnout, she confirmed. A raffle was inside the Thornden Park Field House for attendees. Prizes from the raffle included gift certificates to local businesses such as Yeti

Frozen Yogurt & Cafe and Phoebe’s Restaurant. Tickets to Syracuse Stage, Syracuse Mets and Syracuse Crunch were also available prizes. “(The event) is kind of twofold in that we do a fundraiser, but it’s also just as like a nice day to get out in the winter and see your neighbors, enjoy some chili and enjoy the park,” VanDerGeest said. Carol Simson, the co-founder of the festival and Thornden Park Association board member, said the see chili page 8

An art exhibit promoting body acceptance and wellness sat in the recreation lobby of the Barnes Center at The Arch, where students passed through on their way to exercise or get a smoothie from Otto’s Juice Box. Dedicated to National Eating Disorders Awareness Week from Feb. 24 to March 1, the exhibit, titled “Come As You Are,” was on display through Sunday. It included about 20 pieces of student-created art, with works such as photos, drawings and poems. Alexandra Nicole Santiago, a Syracuse University student and peer educator with Be Wise and Students Advocating for Mental Health Empowerment, came up with the idea for the art installation. Santiago said the purpose of the exhibit is both to raise awareness of eating disorders and validate everyone’s feelings. The exhibit creates a space for people to express themselves without being told what to say, she said. “People don’t have to feel like they don’t fit a certain model or a certain category,” Santiago said. “We invite everyone to participate.” Santiago said she fell in love with art while abroad in Florence, Italy. She wanted to raise awareness through art, rather than other platforms such as social media, because of its therapeutic qualities, she said. Christina Papaleo, a disability access counselor at the Office of Disability Services and a part-time student in the School of Education, said she wanted to get involved with the NEDA exhibit because of her experience as an eating disorder survivor. The art exhibit was the first time Papaleo openly shared her experience of her battle with an eating disorder and her journey to recovery, she said. Papaleo submitted a collage of drawings titled “Nothing is Wasted” for the exhibit. The collage includes drawings of a young girl crying, a broken bowl mended with gold, a girl holding a mirror and a flower growing out of a trash can. “I’ve always used art as a place of restoration and healing for me, and I wanted to communicate that through this piece — that the bravest place that I’ve ever stood is in front of a mirror,” Papaleo said. “And when I present my beautifully broken, authentic self to the world, that’s where I find the most freedom.” One of the pieces in the exhibit, a photograph taken by Bhoomi Thakkar, a first-year graduate student, depicts the lower half of a woman’s face and three types of cutlery: a fork, a knife and a spoon. One side of the woman’s face appears polished and made up, while the other has streaks of mascara. Thakkar said the piece shows see exhibit page 8

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lapadula original stage plays and commissioned screenplays as well as films that debuted at both the Sundance Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. He has taught screenwriting seminars for 28 years and is a current senior lecturer in film studies at Yale University. He described screenwriting as a craft that requires immense imagination, analysis and multiple rough drafts. But he said that there is the added challenge of articulating one’s voice as an artist and formulating a worldly message that is profound enough for viewers to listen to. He said he sees this as “one of the greatest callings” and a creative path that is almost inevitable for many dedicated artists and writers. “If you are successful, you are doing what from page 7

exhibit three perspectives about the views of individuals and society toward eating: taking care of oneself, being too harsh on oneself and society’s judgments and expectations about eating. As a peer educator for SAMHE and a member of the NEDA week task force, Thakkar helped organize the exhibit in addition to submitting this piece. First-year graduate student Braeden Raymer decided to submit a piece to the exhibit because he said his past works fit with the overall theme of the installation. Raymer said that much of his work explores more natural, rather than idealistic, body types. “Some of the art that I make and a lot of the art that I take in is, I think, putting more realistic body types in art and giving people a lens to sort of see themselves in,” Raymer said. Raymer added that the NEDA week art installation differs from other exhibits he’s participated in because it is in a public place rather than an art gallery. The exhibit “stands out as being sort of out of the ordinary,” and people may not expect to see art while they’re walking around, he said.

I’ve found screenwriting to be the perfect marriage between my increasing love for film and my longtime love of writing Bridgit Patterson su student

you love and sharing it with others,” he said in an email. “Inspiring them to exercise their emotions and their minds to enter fresh realms generated solely through your imagiSU senior Abby Tattle is creating a documentary about eating disorders for her capstone. After a friend told her about the NEDA week exhibit, Tattle submitted two spoken word poems that she wrote as extra material for her documentary. One of the poems, titled “Type A” deals with what Tattle describes as the current culture’s obsession with external perfection in everyday life and how this connects to addiction and eating disorders. Tattle said she has been dealing with an eating disorder since the beginning of her college career and is now in a place of recovery. Her other poem, titled “Beyond the Mirror,” describes an experience she had her freshman year, when she realized she was justifying her actions as being for health and wellness purposes, she said. Tattle said it’s important to raise awareness about eating disorders to change the stereotypes and stigmas surrounding them. Despite traditional narratives that state eating disorders only affect teenage white girls, they can affect people of race, sexuality and gender, she added. Art plays an important role in raising awareness because people can easily digest it and can often relate to it, Tattle said. “I think art is really reflective because it is

nation as a writer. It carries with it immense responsibility because a true writer and artist must remain true to what they believe.” As far as a sense of doubt or insecurity in the field, Lapadula said doubt can be used as a motivator to continue to compete with oneself by polishing a work and aiming to take it to a higher level, he said. He also noted that a writer should never be satisfied with a first draft. Aspiring screenwriter and sophomore television, radio and film major Bridgit Patterson finds reassurance in the example of Lapadula’s success. She said she feels inspired to be surrounded by experts of the industry who want to share their knowledge and experiences with students. Patterson relates to Lapadula’s characterization of screenwriting as a divine calling because for as long as she can remember, Patterson said she wanted to be an author.

“Over time, my love for film and the visual aspects of storytelling increased greatly,” Patterson said in an email. “I’ve found screenwriting to be the perfect marriage between my increasing love for film and my longtime love of writing.” Syracuse Studios academy director Samuel Avery said in an email that Lapadula’s seminar was for “serious writers and creatives interested in starting — or continuing — their career in screenwriting.” “There are no guarantees in choosing to be an artist. That’s what makes it so special and scary as a path in life to pursue. But no great artist or writer can ever play it safe,” Lapadula wrote. “The life of an artist is one of taking risks. And the risks are worth it in that you are creating something out of your own personal experiences and unlimited imagination.” kourke@syr.edu

As part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, the “Come As You Are” exhibit featured almost 20 student-created works. will fudge staff photographer

subjective, so you can take away your own personal meaning from it,” Tattle said. “I think it’s really important in any sort of change, in

any sort of situation, like you need art in order for there to be some sort of call to action.”

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chili

format of the Chili Bowl Fest and its activities has changed over the years. In its first year, horse wagon rides around the park were offered to attendees. Simson said that the event has been a way for neighbors to get to know one another. “Really, our goal is to restore every inch of Thornden Park, and it is a historical park,” she said. “It is one of three in the city.” Four types of chili were served at Thornden Park. Alex Jackson made two: the Syracuse Chili and the Field House Chili. The Syracuse Chili combines a few Syracuse culinary classics such as Dinosaur BBQ spices, Middle Ages Syracuse Pale Ale and Gianelli pork sausage. The Field House Chili follows the classic comfort food recipe as it’s made with roast beef, red kidney beans, Dijon mustard, herbs and wine. After his first year on the Thornden Park board, Jackson was approached by fellow board members to contribute to the Chili Fest. He says that as a “Syracuse lifer,” he’s enjoyed being able to contribute to the neighborhood he grew up in. “This is the 24th year, and so they’ve been doing it for my entire childhood,” said Jackson. One of the chilis, the Smokin’ OCC Chili, is made by one of Onondaga Community College’s student chefs. The chicken chili option also includes chipotle peppers, bell peppers, onions, tomatoes and black beans. Each year, a student from OCC’s professional cooking program comes down for the day to cook for festival attendees. The last chili, the Westcott Red Bean Chili, is an option for vegan and vegetarian attendees. The recipe features red beans, tomatoes, allspice, cloves, oregano and organic, unsalted chili powder. Efforts from today’s fundraiser are being put toward clearing walkways and placing new lights on the entrance pillars of Thornden Park. Simson says that organizations that use the park, such as the Nottingham High School football team, help and reap the benefits of the park restoration efforts. “It’s really great how we’re all connected, and we all help each other,” Simson said. abnakamu@syr.edu

HANAH EHRENREICH (LEFT) jots down customer Judy Oplinger’s order during the 24th Annual Chili Bowl Festival held in Thornden Park. There were four chilies featured, including a vegan and vegetarian option. photos by corey henry photo editor

JONAH MINKOFF-ZERN finishes his bowl of chili with cheddar cheese and other toppings during the Chili Bowl Festival.

ALEX EBERT (LEFT) AND NEHA MOHAN, both current SU graduate students, enjoy a bowl of chili together.

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After financial restrictions cost the Fighting Hawks their baseball team a year prior, North Dakota’s women’s hockey program was cut in 2017. The men’s program remained. Flanagan pointed to the financial realities of college sports — from 2006 to 2016, North Dakota’s women’s team brought in $12.8 million in revenue compared to the men’s team’s $42.5 million, per the Department of Education. But because of Title IX, prioritizing programs based on revenue is forbidden. While it is “not permissible to use a sports revenue status as a defense or an excuse for unequal treatment,” Buzuvis said, tolerance of poor performance still comes back to business. “Would they tolerate that same performance from their men’s team? No,” Buzuvis said. “But they’re probably paying a salary commensurate with those higher expectations.” Recently hired Minnesota men’s hockey head coach Bob Motzko will make $565,000 in 2019-20. The Gophers’ women’s head coach, Brad Frost, has a base salary of $195,000. At Ohio State, men’s head coach Steve Rohlik earns a base salary almost four-times that of women’s head coach Nadine Muzerall. In the case of Union College — nine years with only nine conference wins — it was “clear that respect was not shown to the Dutchwomen hockey players,” McGuire said. Countless other factors play into a decision to hire or fire a head coach, not just wins and losses. Barcomb — who could not be reached by The D.O. for comment — said as much when she was finally let go by Union College two months after McGuire’s column. “Is everything about winning,” Barcomb told the Times Union, “or is (it) about being great kids and being a great team?” Teams cannot be expected to supply identical financial resources to every team, McGuire said. But he added coaches must be held to the same standards and women’s players shouldn’t be given significantly less attention than men’s. “You go (to a team) with the hopes and the aspirations of playing for a team that has all kinds of resources and opportunities,” Flanagan said. “If you feel that the program’s being slighted then it does affect some of the kids.” All statistics correct as of Feb. 28, 2020

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to 18.64%, indicating that women’s coaches are held to a lower standard by athletic departments. “I think a lot of time in women’s programs,” SU head coach Paul Flanagan said. “Mediocrity is maybe accepted.” Title IX, passed in 1972, was designed to impose an equality mandate for institutions that receive federal funding, Western New England University law professor and Title IX expert Erin Buzuvis said. The law wasn’t designed to fix social problems. In women’s college hockey, McGuire said, the players suffer. Syracuse houses one of three women’s Division I teams without a male counterpart, but Flanagan said he’s seen the difference in treatment between gendered hockey programs elsewhere. In Eric Means’ six seasons as head coach of Minnesota State’s women’s ice hockey team, the Mavericks had a win percentage of only 24.9%. In 2015 — after six seasons with only one playoff victory — Means was retained by the university. Instead, he stepped down citing the team’s facility as a program handicap. During Means’ tenure at Minnesota State, the men’s team coach, Troy Jutting, was fired despite coaching the program to an NCAA tournament and winning 45.7% of his games — 20.8% more than Means. “It doesn’t matter what program, eventually wins (and) losses matter, especially at the Division I level,” McGuire said. “That’s why they keep score.” Flanagan coached both the men’s and women’s teams at St. Lawrence University before Syracuse, and “always felt that both programs were treated equitably,” he said. But that equity is “unique to an individual institution,” he said, citing North Dakota’s now defunct women’s team as an example of treatment that “wasn’t even close.” “I remember on the women’s side when they weren’t doing well, or just were okay, I don’t really think there was that much of a threat with the coaches to be honest with you,” Flanagan said. “I think the women’s program was just there for Title IX. Which most programs are, I mean let’s face it.”

In six seasons as the women’s ice hockey head coach at Minnesota State, Eric Means’ best record was 13-23-1. During men’s team coach Troy Jutting’s tenure, he was fired despite leading the team to an NCAA tournament.

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Syracuse beats South Florida in tournament championship By Cameron McKeon staff writer

Syracuse capped its most successful weekend of the season with a 7-5, title-clinching win over tournament host South Florida. USF (10-8) entered Sunday undefeated through four tournament games and riding an eight-game win streak. But Syracuse (8-9), behind strong pitching from Catie Dobbs and Alexa Romero, handed USF their first loss of the tournament. The Orange opened the scoring in the top of the second with a solo shot from Alexis Kaiser, her second of the tournament and third on the season. USF answered quickly in the bottom half, scoring a pair of runs and taking the lead despite not registering a hit in the inning. Two hit batters, a walk and passed balls plagued the second inning, gifting the Bulls a 2-1 lead. Syracuse wasted no time regaining the lead in the third, with consecutive singles from Gabby Teran and Neli Casares-Maher setting the table for Rebecca Clyde, who reached on an error and drove home a run. An

Alexa Romero (27) combined with Catie Dobbs to form a pitching duo that led Syracuse over South Florida in the championship game. jordan phelps staff photographer

RBI groundout from Mia Cunnings tacked on the third run of the day for the Orange. The back-and-forth battle continued when Madison Epperson homered for USF to knot it up at three in the bottom of the third. In the fifth, Syracuse pushed across three runs and gained a lead they never gave up. Toni Martin had a 2-RBI single to score Jaime Barta and Jessica Skladal. Jamie Gregg tacked on an insurance run with an RBI groundout later in the inning. Martin would finish the day 3-3 with two RBIs. The Bulls drew closer in the sixth with a sacrifice fly from Bethaney Keen, but Gregg drove home another run with a single in the seventh to pull the SU lead back to three. The second RBI in the game for Gregg put her at a tie with Kaiser for the team lead with 11 RBIs this season. Romero capped her five innings of work with eight strikeouts and three earned runs after taking over for Dobbs in the third. Dobbs started and gave up two unearned runs. Together, the two Syracuse pitchers held USF to just four hits and struck out a combined ten batters in the win. cbmckeon@syr.edu

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Senior Miranda Ramirez clinches 4-3 win over Cardinals By Thomas Shults staff writer

Throughout the match, assistant coach Jennifer Meredith complimented Miranda Ramirez on her hands and feet. At the net, fast reflexes helped Ramirez position her racket and along the baseline, she took quick steps to the ball. Ramirez’s doubles match ended early after her teammates — Sofya Golubovskaya and Sonya Treshcheva — secured the Orange’s doubles point. But almost two hours later, Ramirez won her singles match to secure the match win for SU. Syracuse (8-2, 3-1 Atlantic Coast) defeated Louisville (8-4, 0-3) in a 4-3 win at Drumlins Country Club. While the final score finished close, the Orange secured victory early, after winning the first four matches of the day. After a tough 7-5 first singles set win against Andrea Di Palma, Ramirez breezed from page 12

boston college for another wide-open bucket. Less than 80 seconds in, the Orange’s deficit was 11. “We had a lot of blown assignments,” Hillsman said. “Our defense in transition, we were playing unsettled.” On the ensuing possession, Emma Guy snuck behind Amaya Finklea-Guity and caught another football pass from the opposite end of the court for an easy layup. The Carrier Dome crowd fell silent. Then Syracuse didn’t allow a basket for the next two-plus minutes and clawed to within single digits. The last five minutes of the quarter saw a barrage of long balls drop in from both teams, leading to the highest-scoring first quarter of the Orange’s season. Emily Engstler and Brooke Alexander accounted for four of five SU 3s while three different Eagles from page 12

cooper The Orange adjusted their bench rotation on Sunday, leading to increased minutes for Brooke Alexander, Elemy Colomé and Taleah Washington as well as Cooper’s four 3-pointers and 18 points, one short of her season-high. In an 88-81 loss to Boston College (18-11, 11-7 ACC), Cooper’s performance and recent offensive resurgence have helped mitigate Hyman’s lost production heading into this week’s ACC tournament for Syracuse (15-14, 9-9). “We’ll be fine,” Lewis said, “now somebody else has to step up in that role.” Against the Eagles, that was Cooper. Midway through the opening quarter, when Syracuse and Boston College’s scoring pace ballooned, Cooper received the ball on the

through the second set to win 7-5, 6-1. “I think that after winning the first set I had kind of broken her will a little bit,” Ramirez said. “I think it’s easy to kind of just run away with it.” In the second set, with Ramirez up 3-1, Di Palma returned a shot from the middle of the baseline. The ball hit the tape at the top of the net, but instead of bouncing over to Ramirez’s side, it ricocheted back to give Ramirez a 40-30 lead. Di Palma slowly retrieved the ball. Throughout her walk to the net, Di Palma made no sound, but her mouth moved in silent yells as she motioned her right hand in frustration. On the next shot, Ramirez hit a forehand shot down the line to the deuce side of the court. While Di Palma slammed her racket against the tarp, Ramirez quickly jogged over to the bench, just two games away from an individual and team match win. Once the two players returned to the court,

Di Palma made another error, this time hitting a return long. After the missed shot, the No. 2 Louisville player hit a ball against the tarp behind her that traveled two courts over into Polina Kozyreva’s ongoing match. “Importo!” the Argentinian yelled at herself in Spanish after another missed shot. Louisville’s frustrations were prominent in other courts as well. In No. 1 singles, after losing to Guzal Yusupova 6-0 in the first set, Cardinal Raven Neely cursed under her breath. On court six, SU’s Kim Hansen used a booming forehand and thundering serve to defeat Dina Chaika 6-1, 6-1. When the six-foot tall Hansen served, Chaika stood five to 10 feet behind the baseline, at the block S logo a foot away from the back tarp. “I think I work more on my first serve and that paid off,” Hansen said. “I felt like I was in control the whole time, I played really smart and hit to her backhand a lot.”

Shots to the opponent’s backhands were a common trend for the Orange on Sunday. On a point in the 11th game of the first set, with the games knotted at five, Ramirez hit three consecutive balls to Di Palma’s backhand. On the last shot, Di Palma reached out, tapping a weak ball just over the net. Ramirez used her “quick feet,” as coach Meredith said, to approach the ball and drill a forehand crosscourt winner. Hopping back-and-forth before the coin toss for her doubles match, Ramirez showed the energy head coach Younes Limam has demanded all week in practice, after his team lost its first two matches of the season, falling to Columbia and Duke last weekend. “We talked a lot about how we needed to come out swinging hard and come up with a lot of energy,” Limam said. “We have to keep that energy going.”

were on target from deep. The teams combined for 12 3s in the opening quarter.

Alexander, a graduate transfer who came into Sunday with 14 points on the season, hit two 3s in the span of a minute, one from each corner. After the second, Alexander threw her hands in the air in celebration with a stone-cold look on her face. When Engstler connected from long range on the following

possession, the Eagles’ lead was cut to three. “I just told them to calm down and relax and play the game,” Hillsman said he told SU after falling behind early. “Because at that point, we got 35 minutes left in the game at least.” In the second quarter, the pace slowed. Both teams opted for looks inside and combined to attempt just six 3s, making two. SU ran its offense through Maeva Djaldi-Tabdi, who scored the home team’s first nine points of the quarter. The redshirt sophomore routinely got position down low and bested BC’s Guy with her size and power. A Lewis free throw with 1:09 remaining in the half gave the Orange their first lead. Following halftime, the sides traded baskets. Boston College’s first three made shots of the third quarter were negated by SU makes on the ensuing possession. Neither team built a lead of more than three. The Orange’s only lead in the third, coming from a Cooper 3, was canceled out by a Cameron Swartz deep ball

just 22 seconds later. That was the last time SU had the lead. Sloppy defense, missed shots and a technical foul issued to Hillsman with 48 seconds remaining dug Syracuse a hole it could not climb out of. “I can’t get the T with 48 seconds left in the game, down four, with the ball on our baseline,” Hillsman said. “You know, at that point forward, we score that’s a one-possession game, it’s totally different.” After more than a month of wondering when Syracuse’s hopes for an at-large tournament bid would end, Hillsman and the Orange have accepted their reality. If SU wants to avoid missing the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2012, it must win the ACC tournament. “Our goal now moving forward is to go down there and win the whole thing,” Hillsman said. “We’ve beaten the top teams in this conference, so we gotta go down there and play that way.”

wing with an open 3-pointer. Instead, she drove for the layup. Early in the season, Cooper took deep shots from the corners and wings to mostly poor results. One game with a single-digit output became two, two became three, and three skyrocketed into 16. “Some of our better shooters go through these droughts for four or five games,” Hillsman said on Feb. 5. Cooper’s extended much longer. Hyman emerged during that time as the Orange’s spark off the bench. But against the Eagles, Cooper’s primary replacement wore a Syracuse sweatshirt and sweatpants on the bench. When Hyman drove against NC State last Thursday, her right knee buckled. Syracuse’s backup guard depth immediately thinned, and Cooper’s role expanded. Sunday wasn’t the first time Syracuse played a game without Hyman, but the stretch

is more significant. “At the end of the day, we have guards that can step up and play and we gotta just bounce back and figure out a new rotation,” Hillsman said. Part of that formula Sunday involved Alexander, Colomé and Washington. The former hit two 3-pointers. Colomé became the spark for SU’s press. And when Lewis missed a jumper in the second half, Hillsman shouted “Noo” down his bench and Washington hopped up. She responded with an and-one. An even greater amount of the new rotation, though, relied simply on Cooper’s increased output. Cooper went 4-for-9 from behind the arc, tied for her most second-most efficient shooting performance of the season. “They weren’t really coming all the way out on me,” Cooper said. “They were late with their close-outs, stuff like that. I got the ball up quickly, sometimes I was shooting as they

were running out so it was kind of too late.” Cooper put Syracuse up three with four minutes left in the third quarter with a triple. When Boston College seemed poised to pull away from Syracuse long before the final buzzer, it was Cooper that helped keep the Orange in it. But after Lewis’s desperation three bounced off the rim in the final seconds, Cooper untucked her jersey and thrust it down in frustration. Cooper slowly walked through the last time in the Carrier Dome. Then, she circled back through a line of fans high-fiving and disappeared into the tunnel. Over the next four days, Hillsman will continue to experiment with guard rotations for the ACC tournament to replace the opening Hyman left in the lineup. But over the last two weeks and on Sunday, despite the loss, Cooper may have provided a solution.

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Data analysis shows athletic departments’ expectations significantly differ in women’s and men’s collegiate hockey By Mitchell Bannon asst. sports editor

he 2015-16 Union College’s women’s hockey team won zero games. It was the 13th consecutive season the Dutchwomen failed to qualify for their conference tournament. Under head coach Claudia Asano Barcomb, Union won nine conference games — in nine years. As the winless season came to a close, Union director of athletics Jim McLaughlin announced Barcomb would return for a 10th year. “It was clear,” former Schenectady-based Daily Gazette reporter Mark McGuire said. “As long as the kids were graduating and the program

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Percent of women’s college hockey coaches who reached 100 games, while failing to win at least 30% of their games

wasn’t causing any external problems, the athletic department did not care.” McGuire wrote a column in 2016 questioning McLaughlin and Union’s decision. It was a hockey story, he wrote, but it was “much, much more.” It highlighted a problem with the women’s college game that hasn’t gone away. McGuire asked if Union’s men’s team would have kept their coach with an equally poor record. “Possibly, possibly not,” McLaughlin responded. Data analysis by The Daily Orange found that 6.31% of men’s college hockey coaches have reached 100-games coached with a win percentage below 30%. On the women’s side, that number balloons see ice

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BC tops SU in regular season finale Gabrielle Cooper shines in reshaped backcourt By David Schneidman staff writer

As Boston College’s Makayla Dickens sauntered up the court with under three minutes remaining in both teams’ regular-season finale, Kiara Lewis and Taleah Washington stood facing her, arms stretched wide and feet ready to shift in any direction. Down five, Syracuse needed a stop, something it had lacked throughout the fourth quarter. Dickens moved to the left wing and Lewis went with her before both turned back toward the top of the key. In an instant, Eagles forward Taylor Soule set a screen on Washington while Taylor Ortlepp sprinted from beneath the basket,

curling around Soule to take the pass from Dickens. From the top of the key, a wideopen Ortlepp sunk a dagger 3, extending BC’s lead to eight. SU’s heads hung as the Boston College bench yelled and waved towels, celebrating what was now a sure win. Syracuse (15-14, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) struggled to defend the 3 all game, allowing 12 makes in an 88-81 loss to Boston College (18-11, 11-7) in its regular-season finale on Sunday evening in the Carrier Dome — the final game under the iconic bubbleshaped roof that has stood since 1980. With the loss, the Orange secured the eighth seed in the ACC tournament and will play at 2 p.m. on Thursday against Virginia in

Greensboro, North Carolina. “They made 12 (3s), nine of them were probably wide-open,” Gabrielle Cooper said. “I’d probably say all 12 of them were wide-open, we were just losing shooters.” It took just 63 seconds for SU head coach Quentin Hillsman to use his first timeout. The Orange’s defense, particularly in transition, was nonexistent to open Sunday’s game, and the Eagles took advantage. The visitors nailed wide-open 3s on each of their first three possessions of the game. Out of the timeout, Cooper clanked a 3 off the rim, BC’s Marnelle Garraud rebounded and immediately found Ortlepp alone on the other end of the court see boston

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Gabrielle Cooper trailed Boston College’s Georgia Pineau when the pair entered the paint, but by the time they reached the left block, Cooper had recovered. As Pineau rose for a layup with halftime nearing, the Syracuse senior’s hand knocked the ball away. That block capped a 26-second sequence in the second quarter in which Cooper both tied the game at 43 off a 3-pointer and offered their first chance at a lead. She raced in transition for a coast-to-coast layup that bounced off, but Kiara Lewis drew a

foul on the rebound. One free throw later, Syracuse had that advantage. “Gabby was aggressive and she’s been playing this way for the last couple weeks,” head coach Quentin Hillsman said. For most of this season, though, that hasn’t been the case. A shooting slump that started in nonconference play carried over into Atlantic Coast Conference games and limited Cooper’s impact. But in the last four games, Cooper’s topped double-digit points three times, the latest three days after SU lost top backup guard Teisha Hyman to a right knee injury. see cooper page 10